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MRE fruits and veggies to get major upgrade with new technology
The main goal is to preserve not only the nutrition of the produce but also its taste.
By Sarah Sicard
As COVID-19 infection curve elongates in some places, Army Corps of Engineers has more time to build hospitals
The next hot spots could be in more remote areas.
DARPA has a crappy new idea to help soldiers
When you're deployed to Iraq and your stomach starts to gak, diarrhea
By Aaron Mehta
Explainer: Closing schools during the coronavirus pandemic
On Monday, Defense Department schools at Fort Knox will shutter, part of a series of measures by commanders to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
By Dr. Aubree Gordon, University of Michigan
Meal, Refusing-to-Exit — scientific study backs long-held belief that MREs make it harder to defecate
Defacation reportedly returned to normal once participants resumed their regular diet.
By Jon Simkins
Unsafe intercepts involving NATO aircraft have decreased, and often are the result of a ‘hot-dogging’ pilot, top general says
“In many of the cases where they’re unsafe, when you take a look at the experience level of the operators that were involved, it typically turns into a young man or woman that was probably just hot-dogging it a little bit more than they should." - U.S. Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and commander of U.S. European Command
By Shawn Snow
Defense Department to ban beer and pizza? Mandatory keto diet may enhance military performance
The controversial ketogenic or “keto” diet may be the future of the military, some defense officials say.
By Kristine Froeba
Cops refueling jets: Small teams, sharing jobs, train to set up airfields in combat
Airmen would wear multiple hats as they set up, defended and operated air bases in possibly contested environments under this system.
‘Hot crew swaps’: F-35s are the first single engine fighters to fly on repeat
F-35A Lightning IIs are the first single engine fighters capable of performing rapid crew swaps, in which a pilot takes off, flies a mission and lands to refuel while another pilot takes over the cockpit of the same jet.
By Kyle Rempfer
Meal, Ready-to-Trump: MRE package bears striking resemblance to president — and Kanye?
That is a presidential silhouette if there ever was one.
By Jon Simkins
This is what happened when an Air Force pilot got assigned to a Navy carrier
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
By Chester Peterson Jr., Aviation History Magazine